[FRIAM] Advice on configuring computers

Sat Oct 13 20:20:26 EDT 2018

Hi, Tom, 

I will look into this when I get my new computer. 

Right now I am entranced by my disappearing hard disk space on my old one.  I just went out for coffee and while I was gone another half-gig disappeared from my available hard disk space.  

I assume that SETi has taken over my computer and has squirreled away martian communications in some sector unavailable to my view.  

Another possibility is that something is gone crazy with the hibernation function on my machine, such that it keeps adding to the hibernation file, rather than deleting it when I “awaken” the machine?            

It’s kind of inspiring.  I am in the grip of something larger than myself. 

Nick 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

 <http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Tom Johnson
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2018 10:42 AM
To: Friam at redfish. com <friam at redfish.com>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Advice on configuring computers

Nick:

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On Sat, Oct 13, 2018, 7:34 AM Nick Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net <mailto:nickthompson at earthlink.net> > wrote:

Ok, folks, .... the mystery continues. 

Of the 12 G I freed up on my computer moving stuff to the external HD and deleting stuff AND deleting the trash AND cleaning up system files, repeatedly, all but 5 G had been replaced 24 hours later!  I had done nothing on the machine in the meantime but answer email.
  Are you SURE that there is no way that some program has gone berserk an is busily cloning stuff on my HD?  Are there any programs that are prone to that sort of thing?  Outlook?  Firefox?  

Just double checking. 

Nick 

Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

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From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com <mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com> ] On Behalf Of Marcus Daniels
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2018 9:44 PM
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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Advice on configuring computers

How about $10 a gallon gas and $2000 / month rent?  I'd settle for that.

On 10/11/18, 12:14 PM, "Friam on behalf of Nick Thompson" <friam-bounces at redfish.com <mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com>  on behalf of nickthompson at earthlink.net <mailto:nickthompson at earthlink.net> > wrote:

    Thanks, Barry, 

    But we Puritans think that currency inflation is one of the wages of sin, and if we spend less money, the world will returned to an earlier State of Grace.  I still remember 25 cent gasoline on Ashby Avenue in Berkeley.  That's what gasoline SHOULD cost.  

    Nick 

    Nicholas S. Thompson
    Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
    Clark University
    http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

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    From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com <mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com> ] On Behalf Of Barry MacKichan
    Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2018 12:36 PM
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    Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Advice on configuring computers

    This may not be any consolation, but these “dollars” you speak of, thanks to inflation, are what we used to call in our childhood, “dimes”.

    --Barry

    On 10 Oct 2018, at 12:30, Nick Thompson wrote:

    > I HATE to spend more than 1K for a computer.  It seems a mortal 
    > injustice, an assault upon my mongrel puritan soul.  But perhaps it's 
    > time to suck it up?
    >

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